Here is the tentative schedule: FALL 2008 readings (not including Jenny2 or student open readings): Thurs., Sept. 18 DC Poetry celebration, Gelman Special Collections, 6:30-9:00, Gelman 206 [Not an English Dept. event, but still a poetry reading, of sorts – with lots of musical accompaniment] Thurs., Sept. 25 Mary Morrissy (2008-09 JMM Writer), 8:15 PM,…
All GW faculty and students are invited to attend — and participate in — this hallowed event. If you are willing to read, please contact: Bob Kolodney (bobko@post.harvard.edu, or 202-237-5202) If you’ve never heard of BloomsDay before, examine Margaret Soltan’s mania for the day. BloomsDay2008 Reading There will be a reading of Highlights from Ulysses…
The English Department will host an informal reception for graduating seniors and their families Saturday, 17 May from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in Rome Hall 771. Snacks and champagne and a chance to say good-bye to your professors We look forward to seeing you!
GW ENGLISH DEPARTMENTAL HONORS SYMPOSIUM Friday, May 2, 2008 Rome 771 1:00-4:30 pm 1:00 OPENING REMARKS Professor Jonathan Gil Harris, Director of Undergraduate Studies 1:10-2:10 SESSION I. PERFORMING SEXUALITY & GENDER Presiding: Professor Holly Dugan Lisa Francavilla, “Virgin, Mother, and Whore: Appropriating Female Bodily Agency in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and As I…
A reminder that this Monday evening the English Department will be sponsoring a panel discussion, FICTION AND SURVIVAL: IMAGINATION, MIGRATION, AND DIASPORA, featuring Nadeem Aslam, H. G. Carrillo, and Joanne Leedom-Ackerman. Nadeem Aslam is our inaugural British Council U.K. Writer in Residence; H. G. Carrillo teaches Creative Writing here at GW; Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a…
If you, like me, forgot to turn your television to the News Hour on Valentine’s Day to listen to poet and GW faculty member Jane Shore read Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” — despair not! You can watch the entire performance via streaming video here. And, for your enjoyment, the poem itself. One Art The…
On February 7, Nadeem Aslam read from his soon-to-be published third novel, a mesmerizing performance. The reading was followed by a reception at which GW alumni mingled with current students over a delicious array of desserts. The reception was the first in what we hope will be a long series of such events, aimed at…
Professor Tara Wallace was interviewed last month in the Washington Post about The Complete Jane Austen, to be aired on PBS. The interview was reprinted in the Honolulu Advertiser, Buffalo News, Charleston Post, Tulsa World, San Jose Mercury, Columbus Dispatch and Miami Herald. Professor Wallace is a popular teacher of eighteenth-century literature as well as…
Poet and faculty member Jane Shore will appear on The Newshour this Thursday night. She will be reading Elizabeth Bishop poems to accompany Lloyd Schwartz’s interview about editing the Elizabeth Bishop Library of America volume coming out on Valentine’s Day.
A reminder — Nadeem Aslam, our first British Council Writer in Residence, will be reading from his work tonight at 7 PM in the Marvin Center Amphitheatre. Nadeem Aslam is the author of two prize-winning novels, SEASON OF THE RAINBIRDS and MAPS FOR LOST LOVERS. His third novel, THE WASTED VIGIL, will be published this…
